After Hours EP 028 | Coronavirus, Government and Double Standards
Full Measure After Hours
Sharyl Attkisson
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:07.0 | Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to Full Measure After Hours. |
| 0:11.8 | Today I'm going to talk a little bit about the great political divide |
| 0:15.8 | that seems to have been drawn during the coronavirus pandemic and the response to |
| 0:20.6 | it. I think there's a bit of an awakening of sorts. |
| 0:24.7 | In some cases, this awakening separates right from left politically, but sometimes it's |
| 0:31.0 | where left meets right. |
| 0:32.4 | It has to do with liberty and double standards. |
| 0:39.9 | Not since the September 11th, 2001 Islamic extremist terrorist attacks, has our society |
| 0:46.5 | been so severely tested in terms of some important questions. |
| 0:50.9 | How far we believe our government must go, can go, should go, or dares to go when it comes to controlling |
| 0:58.0 | us for our own good. |
| 1:00.8 | Now these questions were asked in context of the Patriot Act after 9-11 and efforts to really |
| 1:08.9 | crack down on terrorism that may have infringed upon our rights, at least a little bit in the beginning, |
| 1:15.0 | but people were concerned about the slippery slope, |
| 1:18.0 | that by giving additional power to intel agencies and government |
| 1:22.0 | that maybe down the road would be abused for |
| 1:24.7 | political purposes, maybe it wouldn't just be used to find terrorists. |
| 1:31.0 | Well a persistent problem when it comes to putting things in the hands of the government, which |
| 1:35.4 | really wants us to believe whatever they say or want us to do at a given point in time. |
| 1:39.9 | A persistent problem is the public's recognition that as the government takes action, |
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